Benjamin E. Park received his doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge and is an associate professor at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier, editor of A Companion to American Religious History, and co-editor of Mormon Studies Review. He is currently completing a general history of Mormonism in America that will be published by W. W. Norton/Liveright.